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Scotland has officially recorded only one high-profile fraud case for the entire period of 2020 as Covid-19 continues to pose profound logistical challenges for the country’s justice system.  The latest data from KPMG’s Fraud Barometer report reveals a single case of alleged fraud,

The Scottish Parliament has voted in favour of the Protection of Workers (Retail and Age-restricted Goods and Services) (Scotland) Bill.  The member’s bill was brought forward by Daniel Johnson MSP and will create a new statutory offence of assaulting, threatening or abusing a retail

Morton Fraser has launched a new payment model as part of its commercial litigation practice to enable businesses to pursue disputes without significant financial risk. Total annual losses to small businesses from legal problems are estimated at £40 billion, with over one million individuals i

The first session of the Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) Ethics Conference was a success with over 130 people in attendance. Laila Kennedy, SYLA treasurer and trainee solicitor at Ledingham Chalmers LLP, said: "Members heard from three fantastic speakers – Stephen McLaren of Ledingh

Gilson Gray has announced the appointment of Calum Crighton, co-founder of Lex Energy, as a partner in its corporate practice. Mr Crighton joins the partnership with 15 years of commercial law experience, primarily focused on upstream oil and gas and the associated supply chain. Prior to co-founding

Jodi Gordon, partner at Road Traffic Accident Law (Scotland) LLP, comments on the development of remote hearings during the Covid-19 pandemic. ‘Working from home’ has become the norm for so many of us over the last 10 months. There have been challenges along the way requiring both employ

Global law firm Dentons is set to hold its Burns Supper virtually this evening, with the event featuring a number of the firm’s client-produced brands with a "Dentons Burns Night in a box". Food and drink for the night will include Baxters cock-a-leekie soup, Nairn’s oatcakes, Hall&rsquo

The Scottish Young Lawyers' Association (SYLA) is hosting an online meet-up to bring trainees from the 2019/2020/2021 intake together. It is hoped this event will allow trainees to get to know one another virtually – with a view to meeting in person in the future.

Seven years after it began, the long-running inquiry into the Edinburgh trams construction fiasco has now taken longer than the delayed network took to build. The delay has forced the Scottish government to allocate additional funding of £500,000 for the inquiry in the 2021-22 Scotti

The Scottish Law Agents’ Society is seeking a change in the law that would require the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission’s annual budget to be approved by Scottish ministers rather than by the commission itself. SLAS has begun contacting MSPs to seek their support in making

A prisoner serving a life sentence in HMP Edinburgh who sought a judicial review of the failure of the prison authorities to progress him through the route to parole by moving him to a less secure facility has had his petition refused. The punishment part of William Beggs’ sentence expire

Ministers have been warned by a judge that she will order them to reconsider a no-trawl scheme intended to protect Scotland’s marine environment after they said it would serve no purpose, The Herald reports. Lady Poole had last month ruled in favour of the Scottish Creel Fishermen’s Fede

I read with great interest, the article by Benjamin Bestgen The Rights of the Dead. My comment is directed solely at ”disinheriting the family”. The system which we have in Scotland of legal rights has its supporters whose principal argument sees to be that it provides certainty, which,

Holyrood has formally been asked to "right a terrible miscarriage of justice" suffered by the 4,000 people accused and executed for witchcraft. A petition lodged by Claire Mitchell QC seeks a pardon as well as an official apology and a memorial in recognition of Scotland's witches, the vast majority

Dear Editor I assume that the proposal to pardon witches is a serious one. No doubt, these women suffered injustice, but there have been earlier injustices which ought not to be overlooked.